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Re: Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

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Post by sbrother »

MisterMunchkin wrote: post #238
sbrother wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you had any luck fine tuning one with musical data for classification or music-aware QA? I've been hacking on https://trebel.la/ which I would like to be a music practice companion, and the biggest missing feature is actually useful audio-based feedback pipeline. My current approach, not yet validated, is trying to generate training data from masterclass recordings on Youtube, and then fine tuning MOSS-audio on…

You're selling a music feedback app and it doesn't do the music feedback part yet?

I'm not selling anything; I'm developing it live and there is a landing page, but there's no payment hooked up since like you said, it's not functional yet.

Re: Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

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Post by freehorse »

pelican0 wrote: post #168
jadbox wrote: post #142

This is the coolest thing on HN that I've seen in a minute. The whole thing is a perfect blend of ideas with the end result of something that feels... magical. Honestly this is the highest inspiration to me as a builder as I just want to create magical experiences, even if they are just small oddities.

> This is the coolest thing on HN that I've seen in a minute. Off-topic, but what is up with the increased use of the phrase "in a minute", presumably to mean "in a long time", lately? I've only started encountering it in the past year. Did it get popularized by some celebrity, tv show, influencers, etc?

I had not heard it before (or if I did I did not interpret it correctly, eg if one told me "see you in a minute" I would interpret it as "see you in a bit".

But there is this podcast discussing it in 2021, and it comes from black community slang from 70s (which is where most slang I encounter comes from). And these terms take a while to catch up usually, but it seems it was already circulating more broadly since 2000s.

https://waywordradio.org/its-been-a-minute/

Re: Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

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Post by freehorse »

palad1n wrote: post #182
pelican0 wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is the coolest thing on HN that I've seen in a minute. Off-topic, but what is up with the increased use of the phrase "in a minute", presumably to mean "in a long time", lately? I've only started encountering it in the past year. Did it get popularized by some celebrity, tv show, influencers, etc?

Scarlett Johansson says, “See you in a minute" in Avengers: Endgame.

I say "see you in a minute" to mean "see you in a bit". What did Scarlett Johansson mean by that in that movie?

Re: Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

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Post by WolfeReader »

cosmojg wrote: post #243
divbzero wrote: post #113

The underlying classifier, BirdNET, is a traditional neural network and not an LLM: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101236

Why would anyone assume this uses an LLM? It classifies bird sounds, not human language. I don't mean this as an attack, I'm genuinely curious! This seemed obvious to me, and I want to know what line of thinking might lead one to believe that an LLM is the better (or more likely) tool for this job over a purpose-built classifier.

Most "Show HN" posts these days are vibe-coded garbage. It is a pleasant surprise to see one that isn't!

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Post by herrherrmann »

bilsbie wrote: post #153

This could totally be a commercial product. I picture it being sold with a bird feeder. Maybe it uses a camera on the feeder. Then have the screen look like a biologists notebook where he sketches the bird and writes a few notes about the time and its behavior.

A similar product would be Birdbuddy (a birdfeeder with a camera and logging functionality), albeit very commercial and closed-source.

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Post by TheGoodBarn »

This is insane.

Going to google/search and stuff when I get home, but for my current living space it would be awesome if I could get a wireless mic to place outside and have this run on my Beelink SER8, and then over local network sync to my Apple TV and display the images kinda like a screensaver?

Re: Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

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Post by [deleted] »

TheGoodBarn wrote: post #257

This is insane. Going to google/search and stuff when I get home, but for my current living space it would be awesome if I could get a wireless mic to place outside and have this run on my Beelink SER8, and then over local network sync to my Apple TV and display the images kinda like a screensaver?

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Re: Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

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Post by mars-or_wars »

jadbox wrote: post #142

This is the coolest thing on HN that I've seen in a minute. The whole thing is a perfect blend of ideas with the end result of something that feels... magical. Honestly this is the highest inspiration to me as a builder as I just want to create magical experiences, even if they are just small oddities.

The bird database seems only relevant for the UK and surrounding area.

Probably would not show much in the U.S.

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